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Originally Posted by barryem
I live in a retirement home in rural Arkansas. Offhand I'd say that 25% of the people here are regular readers and another 25% are occasional readers. Most of these people didn't finish high school and worked most of their lives in stores and gas stations and doing menial work, so I doubt they're likely to be called intellectuals. But a number of them do read.
Barry
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With all due respect barry, I suspect that you are innumerate because people who are not good at math have a strong tendency to personalize things. Someone who understands statistics would say that your town very well might be a statistical outlier and cannot represent all neighborhoods in the USA let alone base a median or mean for the country off that data a lone.